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This book is beautifully written. My copy has some typos but apart from that this book is amazing to read. Another note: this book is surprisingly dense.
In a letter Professor Bartleboom writes to his future lover, he writes:
"Do we say everything with a single word, or with a single word do we conceal everything? I am here, a stone's throw from the sea, and I cannot even understand where it is. The sea. The sea."